title: The hospital experience and seizure control.
abstract: We studied 30 patients who were admitted to the hospital because of intractable seizures. Twenty-three had fewer seizures during one or both of the first 2 hospital weeks than before admission, although medication was not changed. The role of environment in seizure control is difficult to measure, but hospital admission itself is a form of environmental manipulation. When seizure control is achieved in the hospital, the hospital experience itself must be considered in addition to other therapeutic interventions.
mesh_terms: D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000097:blood / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000453:epidemiology; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000927:Anticonvulsants